[MlMt] Message list vertical font alignment

[Jolin Warren]

On 2 Jan 2025, at 14:31, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2025, at 8:26, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>> After jumping up to Sequoia from Monterey, the text fields in the message list are shifted down such that some text parts are clipped, the threading delta seems shifted up slightly.  I've tried resetting fonts and the light height delta is zero - here's what its looking like:
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>> https://bcodding.com/p/mlmt-line-height-bcodding.png
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> My issues seem to be caused by my selection of font attributes - Helvetica Bold at 11.0 pt used to produce vertically-centered rows, but I've been able to switch to Helvetica Neue Bold 12.0 pt with line height delta of -4.  This produces the same density and experience as before.

I had the same issue when I updated to MailMate test version r6056 (on Sequoia) in August last year. I had some correspondence with Benny and it turned out that the issue doesn’t arise when using the MailMate default font (which is the system default ‘San Francisco’). With the default font you can set the size to whatever you want and the text remains vertically centred in message lists. Benny also made a note of the issue:

On 5 Aug 2024, at 12:28, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> It's probably a bug in my code. It's surprisingly difficult to handle any font, but it does appear there's a general issue at play here. I've made a note of it.

Ben, it looks like you’ve found a solution but if you want another one you can reset the font to the default and then choose any size. And a future version of MailMate may fix the issue entirely.

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=> Jolin